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I'm the one, you don't have to look any further. I'm the one. I'm here, right
here for you, oozes jazz, rock, and electronic music pioneer Annette Peacock
on the leadoff title track of her solo debut LP. The album's wide range of vocal
emotions and diverse sonic palette (featuring Robert Moog's early modular
synthesizers, which the singer actually transmitted her voice through to
wild effect) places it firmly at the forefront of the pop avant-garde. Originally
released by RCA Victor in 1972 to widespread critical acclaim, I'm The One found
itself amongst good company. Both Lou Reed and David Bowie had recently
signed to the label Bowie in particular was enamored with Annette?and
artists ranging from ex-husband and jazz great Paul Bley, along with notable
Brazilian percussionists Airto Moreira and Dom Um Romao, guested on the
album itself. Writing and arranging I'm The One's nine passionate tracks?bar
a unique cover of Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender the disc grooves easily
from free jazz freak-outs and rough and rugged blues-funk to gently pulsing
synthesized bliss.
The second release on our Future Days Recordings imprint, I?m The One is
returning to better record shops on CD and LP formats, re-mastered from the
original tapes with an insert containing beautiful unseen photos from the
vaults of Sony Music and extensive liner notes from NYC-based writer and
musician, Mikey IQ Jones. An extension of Annette's late 1960s work with her
Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show combo, I'm The One is filled with strength and
power, as well as a tender, sensual, and seductive side, born of a life surrounded
with music and culture. Composing by age four, Peacock's mother was a
professional violinist. By the early 1960s, Annette had also collaborated with
first husband, jazz bassist Gary Peacock and toured with legendary saxophone
player Albert Ayler. Studying under Zen macrobiotics educator Michio Kushi
and a confidant to Timothy Leary at the Millbrook psychedelic center, Peacock
later worked, post-I'm The One, with rock stalwarts like guitarists Mick Ronson
and Chris Spedding, Yes/King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford, as well as
surrealist artist Salvador Dali.
Light years ahead of her early 1970s contemporaries in terms of individuality
and uncompromising vision, the album makes today's major label computer
generated fabrications an embarrassment to listeners worldwide. Still to this
day, Annette remains a passionate advocate, an enigma caught between the
peace and love vibrations of a hippy counterculture and the more worldly
intelligence of the modern age. Her records continue to influence and inspire,
and with I'm The One finally back on the shelves, countless new jacks on the
scene can scope its liner notes and bear witness to its brilliance.
Remastered from original tapes
Liner notes by Mikey IQ Jones
Never-before-seen archive photos
Expanded gatefold LP with 180-gram vinyl housed in a deluxe
Stoughton Tip-On jacket with spot UV gloss
LP hand-numbered and limited to 1,000 copies
LP includes 18" x 24" poster
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